I’d argue monarchism itself is to blame. The “heirs” become valid political targets because their very existence is a political statement and bargaining chip and must always be so. They literally can’t be anything else, it’s just how monarchy works.
Uday and Qusay were adults and violent sociopaths guilty of a ton of crimes in their own right when they died.
It’s likely that all the Romanov children would have grown up and worked to perpetuate the immoral system they were growing up in, but they were children not yet guilty of anything when they died, imo.
The Romanovs killed their own children by choosing to retain the throne. They made their children into a deadly threat to the common people.
It’s just like how Saddam’s choices doomed Uday and Qusay.
I’d argue monarchism itself is to blame. The “heirs” become valid political targets because their very existence is a political statement and bargaining chip and must always be so. They literally can’t be anything else, it’s just how monarchy works.
Uday and Qusay were adults and violent sociopaths guilty of a ton of crimes in their own right when they died.
It’s likely that all the Romanov children would have grown up and worked to perpetuate the immoral system they were growing up in, but they were children not yet guilty of anything when they died, imo.